Governor of Ekiti
State and Chairman of the PDP Governors’ Forum, Ayo Fayose, has warned the
Department of State Services (DSS) over the planned detention and trial of
Apostle Johnson Suleiman of Omega Fire Ministries and the Founder of Winners’
Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo.
Fayose described the
move by the DSS as an indirect invitation to religious crisis in the country.
Governor Fayose
disclosed that:
“There is plan to
charge Apostle Suleiman and Bishop Oyedepo for incitement and attempt to cause
public disorder on Friday, and make sure that they are not granted [bail] so to
get them remanded in Kuje Prison perpetually.”
He said this plan
was to humiliate these men of God as well as silence them and create fear in
other people that may want to speak against the heinous crime against humanity
being committed daily [by Fulani Herdsmen], while perpetrators are being
shielded by the Federal Government.
Fayose said the DSS
should tell Nigerians how many of the Fulani herdsmen that killed thousands of
Nigerians across the country have been arrested before going after Nigerians
who merely expressed their frustration over the to failure of the Federal
Government to protect them.
The governor said:
“Even though the DSS has allowed commonsense to prevail by properly inviting
Apostle Suleiman as against the gestapo manner with which the service attempted
to abduct him last week Wednesday, it is still questionable that the DSS is
more interested in a man who threatened to defend himself against any attack by
Fulani herdsmen rather than those herdsmen that murdered thousands of
Nigerians.
“It is sad and
worrisome that after muzzling opposition politicians, judiciary and the press,
the APC led federal government has taking its desperation to suppress
dissenting voices in the country to the House of God.
“If the DSS had
acted swiftly like it is doing on Apostle Suleiman so-called inciting comments
when people were being killed by herdsmen across the country, so many lives
would have been saved.”
Fayose advised the
government and the DSS not to go ahead with these plans as it will heat up the
polity and threaten the peaceful coexistence of Nigerians, calling on well
meaning Nigerians to prevail on the Federal Government to desist from acts capable
of throwing the country into further crisis.
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